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British Railway Station Architecture in Colour: For the Modeller and Historian
Ian Allan

British Railway Station Architecture in Colour: For the Modeller and Historian

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Most enthusiasts are familiar with the locomotive engineers of the past but many of the great civil engineers and architects whose work still lives on are largely unknown. In this volume we encounter the men who created this diverse heritage. Among them are some of the most celebrated architects to have worked in the British Isles in the past 200 years.

In this volume, Robert Hendry, author of over 20 railway books and an active modeller, explores the diverse world of British railway station architecture, ranging from Liverpool Crown Street of 1830 to the postmodernist reconstruction of Charing Cross in 1991 and Hastings in 2006. Included are stations from the dawn of railways between 1830 and 1850, and the age of High Victorian elegance between 1850 and 1875, before discovering a chill wind of reality in the last quarter of the 19th century, as engineers realised that minor country stations were not likely to be financially viable.
Front cover, top: The London & North Western station at Chester Road came into use on 1 December 1863, some 18 months after the opening of the line from Aston to Sutton Coldfield but followed the same general pattern. They were the harbingers of a series of modular buildings that were to characterise the LNWR, the LMS and the London Midland Region of BR for well over a century

Softback, 96 pages, colour photographs

Condition: Very Good

ISBN: 9780711032828